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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
I seem to recall the 80s Satanic Panic was very much a North American creation (well, mostly the USA). If the UK was also affected, it seems to me to be less so than the USA, where it seemed every...
Commented on Three pieces of news about the Laundry Files (UPDATED!)
I think my favourite role for him was as the evil, almost-demonic (super)villain in Hudson Hawk. He was masterful in his deliberate chewing of the scenery, and thoroughly delightful to watch. I think John Simm could do a pretty credible...
Commented on The iron law of development
Nuclear subs are never totally silent because reactors are hot; even when they're not actively generating steam they need to run pumps to circulate coolant through the reactor core lest they melt. Apparently some of the newer American subs...
Commented on A question about the future of the world wide web
Yes, we can add micropayments to the web without burning it down and starting again. There's even a "402 Payment Required" HTTP status code reserved for future use. One way: server is configured to know which pages are free, and...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)